Cats in Phoenix being attacked via a person with blow-dart gun

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somebody is focused on cats in east Phoenix.

"We're asking cat house owners to hold a watch on their pets and maintain them indoors if in any respect viable," Phoenix Police Detective Jemima Schmidt stated.

In a regional close thirty second street just north of Thomas road, animal rescue companies, together with the Humane Society, have rescued young felines that were purposefully injured Oct. 2-16.

Cats had been appearing with darts protruding from their heads and, unfortunately, now not all have survived.

"someone is crafting handmade blow darts, which are being shot from a blow-dart gun and being used to injure cats," Schmidt, with the animal cruelty aspect, stated.

The blow darts, she noted, had been created out of numerous materials, together with nails and wire.

And whereas there was a colony of feral cats within the enviornment, probably the most victims were family unit pets.

Schmidt referred to as the crime "atrocious."

"Darting an animal then leaving that animal to roam around alive with the dart protruding from its skull is cruel," she observed.

numerous blow darts were present in the enviornment and investigators wish to comprehend in case you've found any or if you've viewed any individual training with a blow-dart gun.

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